Obscure Blade

Looks like a single shoulder veteran cape to me.

Yeah, you'd think that those NPCs would appreciate all those free bullets and lasers and firebolts I'm giving them! Sheesh!

No, it doesn't. It can't affect a power if you can't slot that kind of enhancement into it; and you can't slot Domination at all.

It was called Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. It was a segment of a starship from an alternate universe. It has various types of cool "ray guns" (which didn't look much like guns so as to baffle the players), power armor, robots, and a variety of cool monsters some of which showed up in the wider game later.

Or with small ones how they'll levitate off the back. As I understand it the problem is that they've run out of anchor points on the character skeleton, so they just attach the temp power packs to the skeleton's center of mass; the problem is that doesn't change with scaling.

Especially at 32, it's the pet that renders your enemies helpless for your otherwise somewhat flimsy pets to rip up. Ninjas would be better off with the Lich than the Oni, I think.

<recalls the warriors of Asgard fighting the fire demons of Surtur in the streets of New York City

Yes, it *is* that tedious to a lot of people; the majority I suspect. How tedious something is is a completely subjective thing.

True.

One of the nice things about a superhero game is that pretty much anything can fit in. An undead necromancer wouldn't fit in well with a sci-fi setting; a robot doesn't fit in well in a fantasy setting; but in a comic book setting like Paragon they can both team up and fight a psychic brain in a jar and it works.

Infernal and the Circle of Thorns are displeased about your opinion of fantasy characters in a superhero game!

Transgender people don't normally think of themselves as genderless; they are so very certain of their gender that they are willing to undergo expensive and painful medical procedures to correct the mismatch between their body-gender and their brain-gender. They should be addressed by whichever gender term they wish, which isn't likely to be a gender neutral one.

Using "he" as a gender neutral term is a good way to aggravate quite a few women. "His/her" or "their" can be awkward but is less likely to spark angry arguments than using "he" in reference to women or even worse "it" in reference to the transgendered (which, yes, I've seen; and no, it wasn't well received).

Those are hermaphroditic/gender neutral pronouns. Why PoisonPen is using them, I have no idea.

That's because this game makes heavy use of instancing and has a good chat system; people spend most of their time in missions, and don't usually recruit people by standing around broadcasting. Try joining a global channel (channel search is under the Tab button in your chat box).

What server are you on? Virtue is the unofficial RP server, while Freedom is where the powerlevelers and PvPers hang out (and is often called Freedumb). Justice is the unofficial Australian server.

Also, some of those people with dumb names may well be farmers for illegal Inf spammers/sellers; they pick random names because they don't care and don't expect the character to last anyway.

That's more of a forumite thing, and only in certain sections to boot.

And? If you expect to play without encountering the occasional jerk, you might as well take up solitaire. On the whole this game community is one of the nicer ones around.

Considering that animalistic mutants are pretty common in comic lore (Hi, Cap'n Mako!), yes it was a pretty natural assumption to make.

No, those are unique to SoA.

Three armed character models, so we can have the long awaited Dual Blades/Shield combo!

Nitpick: There have been a few new wing types. Offhand, I recall Mutant Pack wings, 2 types of Valkyrie Wings.

Personally, I've come to suspect that they re-adjusted how the server screen displays server load so that it shows relative load even when not overloaded. A while back they upgraded the servers, and for quite some time after that almost always they just showed as single green dots which doesn't give you that much information. So I think they re-adusted it so now you can see which servers have the heavier load; that both gives the players more information and makes the game look busier (I recall a lot of people ignoring the server upgrade and using the all-green-dots server screen to claim the game was dying. Again.)

Pigeon Man has arrived in Paragon! The statues will never be safe again!

I'm kind of "meh" on that, levelling is quite fast these days. I'm more interested in the heavy hinting for Animal and Steampunk Booster Packs.

So you decided to take advantage of Going Rogue and side switch to Villain, eh?

It isn't just an MM problem, I've noticed how on my Illusion Controllers Phantasm rushes right into melee range and tends to get killed. Especially aggravating since he hasn't a single melee attack.